East German Poster Database

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• DEFA-Report
  This poster advertises three East German films from DEFA studios. Each film is featured within a separate rectangular white bubble with a black outline. Each one has a text description and a black and white photograph. Featured films are "P.S.", "Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr" and "Ein April hat 30 Tage" on a yellow background. This poster is East German.
• DEFA-Report
  This poster advertises three East German films from DEFA studios. Each film is featured within a separate rectangular white bubble with a black outline. Each one has a text description and a black and white photograph. Featured films are "Addio, piccola mia", "Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet" and Das Ding im Schloß" on a peacock blue background. This poster is East German.
• DEFA-Report
  This poster advertises three East German films from DEFA studios. Each film is featured within a separate rectangular white bubble with a black outline. Each one has a text description and a black and white photograph. The featured films are "Unser kurzes Leben", "Pugowitza," and Die Stunde der Töchter" on a red background. Thre are some small closed tears along the bottom edge. This poster is East German.
• DEFA-Report
  This poster advertises three East German films from DEFA studios. Each film is featured within a separate rectangular white bubble with a black outline. Each one has a text description and a black and white photograph. This poster features "Die Beunruhigung", Märkische Forschungen", and Romanze mit Amelie" on an olive green background. This poster is East German.
• DEFA-Report
  This poster advertises three East German films from DEFA studios. Each film is featured within a separate rectangular white bubble with a black outline. Each one has a text description and a color photograph. Featured films are "Komödiantenemil", "Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod", and Alle mein Mädchen" on a hot pink background. This poster is East German.
• DEFA-Report
  This poster advertises three East German films from DEFA studios. Each film is featured within a separate rectangular white bubble with a black outline. Each one has a text description and a black and white photograph. This post features "Zwei Zeilen, kleingedruckt", "Asta, mein Engelchen", and "Sing, Cowboy, sing" on a peacock blue background. This poster is East German.
• DEFA-Report
  This poster advertises three East German films from DEFA studios. Each film is featured within a separate rectangular white bubble with a black outline. Each one has a text description and a color photograph. At top: "Dach überm Kopf" with a picture of a man and a woman sitting at a table, talking, over a bottle of alcohol; "Levins Mühle" with a picture of a man and woman talking to a soldier in a pickelhaube, holding a horse; "Max und siebeneinhalb Jungen" with a picture of five teenagers standing outside, one holding a bicycle. The background is teal green. This poster is East German.
• DEFA-DISKO 77
  This poster is a graphic neon illustration in green and blue on a red background. It features a green "film" strip which curves around varying sized circles of red, blue, and green. Near the top, two of the circles are blue eyeballs. The center features the name of the film, contained within a large blue circle. This film is East German.
• Don Quichotte
  This poster features red strips of film, of varying opacity, standing upright on an orange background. The film is Soviet. The vertical edges have e chipping and crumpling.
• De Bästa Åren
  This poster is an advertisement, in Swedish, for the showing of an East German film. The text is written on a page torn from a notebook, on a bright blue background.
• Durch den wilden Westen
  This poster is a pencil sketch of a topographical map. In the right hand corner is a red "x" with the word for "oil" written next to it. A black arrow points to the word for "West." On the right is a pencil sketch of a revolver, printed in olive green. The background of the poster is a black oil spill, which seeps and drips onto the drawing. This film is Soviet.
• Dirty Dancing
  This poster is a color photograph of Patrick Swayze dancing with a blonde woman in a pink dress. They are in the midst of several dancing couples, and appear to be in a roadhouse, as the walls are wood, and wooden chairs are hanging from a beam in the ceiling. There is a neon sign in background. The background of the poster is light pink, with pink, red, and yellow hearts scattered about. This film is American.
• Durch dick und dünn
  This poster is an illustration of three men by the side of the road. One man, in a blue sleeveless shirt, kneels in front of the car. The yellow headlight is shining. A blonde man in a red top stand next to the car. A third man is in the distance. All of the men have their names written on or next to them. The dividing line of the highway is dotted blue. The background is streaky black brush marks. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Dresden '85. 30 Jahre DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme Dresden
  This poster commemorates thirty years of animated films from DEFA studio in Dresden. It features the silhouetted profiles of four men. Three men have on bowler hats. The top of the fourth men's head has burst open, and he has a huge smile. From his head shoots out film strips, shooting stars, colored pencils, and cartoon characters. It is on a white background. This poster is East German. There is visible foxing. The artist's name, presumably, is written on the back, but cannot be deciphered.
• Die drei Musketiere
  This poster features an illustration of the head and limbs of a musketeer, on a bright red background. The limbs are in purple; the right hand has purple gauntlets with lace cuffs, and holds a gold sword over the head. The left hand holds a thin golden goblet. The lower limbs are boots only, with golden spurs in a star shape, and a golden swag at the calf. The head has long hair, a dagger shaped goatee, and an upturned mustache. The head has a wide, floppy pink hat with a giant green feather plume. This film is English. The poster is acidic, and there is foxing on the back.
• China in Film. Tage des chinesischen film in der DDR. Vom 25.9. bis 1.10.1989
  This poster is an advertisement for a festival of Chinese film in the DDR. It features an illustration of a rainbow colored film strip, which undulates vertically down the poster, and at the end, takes the shape of a serpent's head. The image is on a red background. This poster is East German. The poster is crumpled and torn on the right edge, bottom.
• Conrack
  This poster consists of a dot matrix image of Jon Voigt. There is a black woman standing next to him, and they appear to be in a crowd, as a face is just visible behind Voigt, and there is a hand on the woman's shoulder. The poster has been printed with a band of blue and then a band of green at the bottom. This film is American.
• Cromwell
  The title of the film is predominant on this poster, marked out in three dimensional purple and pink lettering. Below the title, on a matching purple background, is a white illustration of a white lace collar and placket. There is blood on the collar, which drips down onto the lace. There is light writing in white that says "King Charles 1st." This film is English. There are small chips along the top edge, left.
• Countdown at Kusini
  This poster is an illustration of a stretch of railroad track, which narrows as it stretches off in the distance. In the foreground, two blue arms come out of the ground, on either side of the track. They hold a red and purple rifle. The background is light and dark grey. This film is a Nigerian and American co-production. There are several closed tears around the edges, and a diagonal crease along the top third.
• Chingachgook, die große Schlange
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of an American Indian couple, from the shoulders up. He has long black hair with a white feather in it, and wears a bear claw necklace. She has long black hair, braided on each side, and wears a white headband with red and blue beads. Although their features are barely visible, they appear to be smiling. The poster has an orangish red background. This film is East German. There is a closed tear at the top edge, left.
• Crocodile Dundee II
  This poster features an illustration of a mammoth Paul Hogan, as Crocodile Dundee, straddling the New York skyline. He has his arm around Linda Kozlowski. He wears his python skin vest, bush hat, and brandishes a large knife in his right hand, which glints in the sunlight. Kozlowski wears a blue dress, and has her body tightly pressed to Hogan. Hogan casts a shadow over the Hudson River, and the Chrysler building's radio tower points directly into his taint. Sunlight reflects off of the skyscrapers, although the sky is full of orange, fluffy clouds. This film is American.
• Cotton Club
  This poster is a black line drawing of a woman wearing butterfly wings. The wings are in colored pencil shades of yellow, blue, and pink. She wears a white leotard dress, with the same colored accents at the bodice, and on her feet. Her hair is delineated in the same color scheme, with a flower shape at the top. She sits , legs crossed at the ankles, atop a trumpet, which is a black silhouette. The slide terminates in the handle of a gun, and the mouthpiece forms a trigger. The image is on a white background. This film is American. The poster has some staining, and there is a significant crease in the lower right hand corner.
• A Chorus Line
  This poster has two color stills from the film one at the top, one at the bottom. In the top image, with the chorus line behind him, a young man does a full split in mid-air. IN the bottom image, the chorus line kicks to the right in unison, while tipping their ubiquitous Bob Fosse hats. This film is American.
• Circus Maximus
  This poster is a pastel vignette of the upper body of a skeletal looking man in a classic black and white pierrot costume. He wears a pink ruffled collar, and has his arms raised in a surrender position. He has a few tufts of black hair at the back of his head, a wrinkled forehead, and sunken cheeks. There is multicolored pastel sketching around him in green and black. The image is on a tan background. This film is an Hungarian and West German co-production. The artist's address is written on the back of the poster.
• Crocodile Dundee
  This poster features a color still from the film of Paul Hogan dressed as Crocodile Dundee. There is an illustrated border, of matching crocodiles at the top and bottom. There is a dark green border, with zig zags of white on the side, like the scales along a crocodiles back. This film is Australian.